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S.T. Don LT276

Additional material courtesy of Barry Banham

Technical

Official Number: 109084
Yard Number: 5
Completed: 1898
Gross Tonnage: 168
Net Tonnage: 65
Length: 105.6 ft
Breadth: 21.0 ft
Depth: 10.7 ft
Built: Irvine Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Irvine
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Muir & Houston Ltd, Glasgow

History

1898: Launched by Irvine Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Irvine (Yd.No.5) for James Leyman & Co Ltd, Hull as DON.
11.1898: Completed (James Leyman, manager).
24.11.1898: Registered at Hull (H433).
2.1912: Sold to Richard Watson Lewis, Aberdeen (managing owner).
22.2.1912: Hull registry closed.
22.2.1912: Registered at Aberdeen (A443).
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 65.11net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
6.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a boom working vessel (2-3pdrs). Based Scapa.
1.11.1918: Sold to John Hall Richardson, North Shields (managing owner).
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at North Shields.
3.8.1922: Sold to Jack Richardson Ltd, North Shields.
5.8.1922: Sold to Jack Albert Billmeir, London (managing owner).
23.11.1922: Aberdeen registry closed.
24.11.1922: Registered at London (LO553).
1924: Sold to The Reculver Shipping Co Ltd, London (Jack Albert Billmeir, manager).
1924: Sold to Arthur B. Cullen & Daniel Thorpe, Lowestoft (Purchased at auction unseen for £95. The value of coal in her bunkers was higher than the purchase price).
18.2.1926: London registry closed.
19.2.1926: Sold to Henry Thrower (22/64), Lowestoft; Daniel Thorpe (21/64), Oulton Broad; William Edward Bewley (21/64), Lowestoft (William L. Mullender, manager).
19.2.1926: Registered at Lowestoft (LT276).
13.5.1927: Following death of William Edward Bewley 21 shares placed in names of executors, Arthur Gouldby & George Thomas Home, Lowestoft.
19.10.1927: 21 shares registered to Mrs Annie Bewley, Lowestoft.
29.5.1930: Sold to Daniel Thorpe (32/64), Oulton Broad & Mrs Annie Bewley (32/64), Lowestoft (W. L. Mullender, manager).
1930s: Seasonal trawling from Fleetwood (Lowestoft Fish Selling Co Ltd, Lowestoft, managing agent).
1.31935: Sold to Frederick Owen Mullender (32/64) & Daniel Thorpe (32/64), Lowestoft.
18.1.1936: Following death of Daniel Thorpe, 32 shares transferred to William Henry Thorpe. Lowestoft.
1936: Sold for breaking up.
8.2.1937: Lowestoft registry closed “Broken up”.

Changelog

14/12/2010: Page published. 2 updates since then.
25/04/2020: Updated information.

S.D/T. Quiet Waters LT201 (Seasonal)

Additional material courtesy of Barry Banham

Technical

Official Number: 149250
Yard Number: 1102
Completed: 1930
Gross Tonnage: 117
Net Tonnage: 53
Length: 94.0 ft
Breadth: 20.0 ft
Depth: 9.5 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Elliott & Garrood Ltd, Beccles
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby

History

20.12.1930: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.1102) for Frederick Ernest Catchpole (managing owner), Lowestoft as QUIET WATERS.
19.1.1931: Completed.
21.3.1931: Registered at Lowestoft (LT201).
1930s: Seasonal trawling from Padstow, Milford and Fleetwood (Lowestoft Fish Selling Co Ltd, Lowestoft, managing agents).
15.10.1939: At Lowestoft landed 215 crans of herring.
28.9.1932: At Grimsby damaged propeller.
28.9.1932: Connected to PEACEFUL STAR(LT90) disabled with fouled propeller and delivered her to Calais.
3.9.1939: Requisitioned for war service on contraband control/auxiliary patrol (P.No.FY1776) (Hire rate £69.3.6d/month).
3.1944: Employed on miscellaneous Naval duties.
9.2.1946: Returned to owner.
22.11.1947: At Lowestoft landed 140 crans fresh and 60 crans iced.
10.5.1948: Sold to The Star Drift Fishing Co Ltd, Lowestoft (Frederick E. Catchpole, manager).
28.3.1949: Registered at Lowestoft as PEACEFUL STAR (LT201). Seasonal white fish trawling from Fleetwood.
6.10.1952: At Lowestoft landed in excess 200 crans.
31.5.1955: Sold to Arthur H. Codd & Son, London.
1.6.1956: Sold to Anson Steam Trawler Co Ltd, Milford Haven (John N. Picton, manager).
13.11.1957: Returned to Milford to land the Skipper, George Knight of Lowestoft, with an injured foot.
25.11.1959: Sold to Alick King, Lowestoft (managing owner).
30.11.1959: Sold to Wood & Davidson Ltd, Aberdeen (John Wood, manager).
21.12.1959: Lowestoft registry closed.
28.12.1959: Registered at Aberdeen (A61).
1961: Converted to motor by J. Lewis & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen, fitted with 3-cyl 4 stroke 300bhp oil engine by A.K. Diesels Ltd, Lowestoft (engine built under licence by J. Lewis & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen in 1960).
1961: Alteration to tonnage and other particulars. Certificate of Survey at Aberdeen. Remeasured 121.48g 48.36n.
27.10.1970: Sold to George Wood (Aberdeen) Ltd, Aberdeen.
27.10.1970: Sold to Wood & Davidson Ltd, Aberdeen.
11.2.1973: Sold to James Stevenson, London.
1974: Sold to Robert Dick, London. To be fitted out in Portugal for prawn fishing off North African coast.
1978: Sank on moorings in Marsa Creek, Malta.
1979: Sunken hull sold to Cassar Enterprises, Marsa for £880.
1981: After being salved sold to Sartard Shipbreakers Ltd , Marsa for breaking up.
4.5.1982: Aberdeen registry closed “Registry cancelled on direction of Secretary of State dated 27.4.1982”.

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S.D/T. Quiet Waters LT201

S.D/T. Quiet Waters LT201
© Ford Jenkins-Robert Durrant Collection

S.D/T. Peaceful Star LT201

S.D/T. Peaceful Star LT201
Picture courtesy of The Barry Banham Maritime Photo collection

S.D/T. Peaceful Star LT201

S.D/T. Peaceful Star LT201
Picture courtesy of John Stevenson

M.D/T. Peaceful Star A61

M.D/T. Peaceful Star A61
Picture courtesy of Greenday (Ships Nostalgia)

Changelog
13/12/2010: Page published. 4 updates since then.
13/06/2016: Information updated, picture added.
03/11/2018: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.

S.D/T. Comrades LT403 (Seasonal)

Additional material courtesy of Barry Banham

Technical

Official Number: 149213
Yard Number: 1025
Completed: 1928
Gross Tonnage: 114
Net Tonnage: 51
Length: 92.0 ft
Breadth: 19.6 ft
Depth: 9.5 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: T.3-cyl by W. Burrell & Co, Gt Yarmouth
Boiler: Riley Bros (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton on Tees

History

5.7.1928: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.1025) for Gilbert & Co Ltd, Lowestoft as COMRADES.
8.8.1928: Completed (Arthur George Gilbert, manager).
24.9.1928: Registered at Lowestoft (LT403).
29.9.1928: Trials at Lowestoft. First Skipper H. J. Bryant.
1929 – 1930s: Seasonal white fish trawling from Padstow and Fleetwood (Lowestoft Fish Selling Co Ltd, Lowestoft, managing agents).
15.3.1929: Off Trevose Head lost propeller.
1930: Company in liquidation.
18.3.1930: Sold by liquidator to reconstituted Gilbert & Co Ltd, Lowestoft (Arthur George Gilbert, manager).
13.12.1933: Struck bank at entrance to Lowestoft harbour causing bottom damage.
28.3.1935: Seasonal trawling out of Fleetwood lost propeller.
18.4.1937: Seasonal trawling out of Fleetwood lost propeller.
3.9.1939: Requisitioned for war service on contraband control (1-3pdr) (Hire rate £58.0.0d/month).
1.1941: Based at Weymouth as armed patrol drifter (Ty/Sk. D. T. Buck PNR).
1944: Employed on miscellaneous Naval and port duties.
19.9.1946: Returned to owner.
1950s: Seasonal white fish trawling from Fleetwood.
1955: Re measured after conversion – 118g 49n.
26.7.1955: Completed trials after conversion to motor.
30.7.1955: Converted to motor by L.B.S. Engineering Co Ltd, Lowestoft, fitted with 300bhp 3-cyl A.K.Diesel Ltd, Lowestoft installed by W. H. Podd Ltd, Lowestoft.
30.7.1955: Sailed Lowestoft.
18.8.1955: Re registered at Lowestoft as a motor drifter/trawler (LT403).
7.10.1955: Mortgaged to The White Fish Authority, London (A).
9.5.1961: Mortgage (A) discharged.
4.1964: Company and assets bought by Basil A. Parkes, Hull.
16.4.1964: Frederick Ernest Catchpole appointed manager.
22.3.1967: Sold to Richard Curnow, Helston (32/64) & Capt Silas Victor Oates, Penzance (32/64) (Silas Victor Oates, manager). Used as a platform to carry out unauthorised dives on wreck of Liberian steam tanker Torrey Canyon (61263grt/1959) (Stranded 18.3.1967 on Pollard’s Rock, Seven Stones, dispersed wreck in 30 metres at 50.2,50N 6.7,73W).
18.9.1967: Silas Victor Oates 32 shares sold to Lewis Ernest Adams, Oakhampton (32/64).
8.12.1967: Lewis Ernest Adams 32 shares mortgaged to Smith & Godwin Ltd, London to secure the sum of £10,000 with interest (B).
31.12.1967: Richard Curnow 32 shares mortgaged to Gilbert & Co Ltd, Hull to secure the sum of £1,350 with interest (C).
8.1968: Arrested at Poole following writ issued on behalf of Gilbert & Co Ltd, Hull for non payment of monies outstanding.
15.1.1969: Mortgage (B) transferred to Allcredits Ltd, London.
1970: Broken up at Poole.
1.8.1976: Lowestoft registry closed. (Not removed from Lloyd’s Register until 1992-1993 edition. “Vessel’s continued existence in doubt”.

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S.D/T. Comrades LT403

S.D/T. Comrades LT403
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S.D/T. Comrades LT403

S.D/T. Comrades LT403
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S.D/T. Comrades LT403

S.D/T. Comrades LT403
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S.D/T. Comrades LT403

S.D/T. Comrades LT403
Picture courtesy of The Wilbert Tulloch Collection

M.D/T. Comrades LT403

M.D/T. Comrades LT403
Picture courtesy of The Clione Collection

Changelog
10/12/2010: Page published. 12 updates since then.
21/06/2016: Information updated.
01/11/2018: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
03/08/2019: Updated information and added an image.

S.D/T. Peace Wave LT47 (Seasonal)

Additional material courtesy of Barry Banham

Technical

Official Number: 146456
Yard Number: 767
Completed: 1922
Gross Tonnage: 97
Net Tonnage: 35
Length: 85.2 ft
Breadth: 19.1 ft
Depth: 9.0 ft
Engine: (As built) C.2-cyl by International Engine Works, Amherst, Nova Scotia to a Goldie & McCulloch Co Ltd, Galt, Ontario design
Boiler: International Engine Works, Amherst, Nova Scotia
Replacement engine: T.3-cyl by S. Richards & Co Ltd, Lowestoft
Boiler: Riley Bros (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
(All machinery new 1917 and ex Canadian wooden Admiralty drifter CD.19)

History

14.2.1922: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.767) for John McCann, Hull (Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull) as TELIA.
24.3.1922: Completed.
24.4.1922: Transferred to Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (John McCann & Edward Cartwright, managers).
25.4.1922: Registered at Hull (H477).
17.3.1925: Sold to T. Baskcomb Ltd, Grimsby (Thomas W. Baskcomb, manager).
20.3.1925: Hull registry closed.
23.3.1925: Registered at Grimsby (GY299).
12.3.1929: Grimsby registry closed.
13.3.1929: Sold to William J. Westgate, Lowestoft (managing owner).
5.6.1929: Re engined and boilered by S. Richards & Co Ltd, Lowestoft.
28.6.1929: Registered at Lowestoft as PEACE WAVE (LT47).
1930s: Seasonal white fish trawling from Padstow, Milford and Fleetwood (Lowestoft Fish Selling Co Ltd, Lowestoft, managing agent).
10.2.1932: In heavy weather lost man overboard and drowned.
19.4.1937: W. J. Westgate died.
16.6.1937: Sold to Ernest Edward Butcher & Ernest Herbert Holland, Lowestoft (joint owners).
21.9.1937: Sold to P. W. Watson & Sons Ltd, Lowestoft (Allan H. Watson, manager).
28.10.1937: At Lowestoft (Sk.David J. Knights) landed 271 crans (gross £359) from Smith’s Knoll ground (Sk. David J. Knights), took twelve hours to haul and had to cut away fifteen nets which sank due to weight of fish. Prunier Trophy winner.
7.11.1939: At Bangor Magistrates Court, Sk. David J. Knights was fined £5 with £5 costs for fishing within the three-mile limit off Anglesey.
Pre 1943-1945: Fishing from Fleetwood.
22.7.1943: Typical wartime landing. 52 kits – hake-14, cod/codling-22, haddock-2, whiting-8, flats-1, ling/coley-1, roker-3, dogs-1.
1.10.1943: Sold to Jubilee Fishing Co Ltd, London (Samuel Stewart, manager).
11.1.1945: Change of company address in London.
6.1955: Sold to Jas. de Smedt, Antwerp for breaking up at Boom.
13.7.1955: Sailed Lowestoft for Antwerp in tow of steam drifter LANDBREEZE (LT1296) also sold for breaking up.
14.7.1955: Arrived Boom.
3.8.1955: Lowestoft registry closed.

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S.D/T. Peace Wave LT47

S.D/T. Peace Wave LT47
Picture courtesy of The Barry Banham Maritime Photo Collection

Changelog

10/12/2010: Page published. 2 updates since then.
14/06/2016: Minor information update.
31/10/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
11/07/2021: Updated history.

S.D/T. Homocea LT112 (Seasonal)

© Barry Banham

Technical

Official Number: 137617
Yard Number: 573
Completed: 1919
Gross Tonnage: 96
Net Tonnage: 41
Length: 86.2
Breadth: 18.5 ft
Depth: 9.3 ft
Built: A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Engine: T.3-cyl by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Boiler: John Lewis & Sons, Aberdeen

History

1919: Launched by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.573) (“Admiralty drifter”) for The Admiralty as WATERFALL (Ad.No.4132).
16.9.1919: Completed as a fishing vessel.
1919: Sold to Edward Albert Baker, Gorleston.
10.11.1919: Registered at Yarmouth as HOMOCEA O.N.137617 (YH214). Edward Albert Baker, Gorleston designated managing owner.
23.12.1921: Sold by order of the mortgagees to E. A. Maxteo, Boulogne sur Mer.
1922: Re-measured 107 grt 14n.
3.1.1922: Yarmouth registry closed. Registered at Boulogne as NI TU (B??).
3.1.1922: Sold to A. Alvargonzalez, Gijon. Registered at San Sebastian. Spanish pareja trawling.
12.1929: Sold to Fred Parkes, Blackpool.
1.1930: Sold to William Barnard, Lowestoft.
1930: Re measured 98grt 41n.
11.1.1930: Registered at Lowestoft as HOMOCEA (LT112). William Barnard, designated managing owner.
1934: Seasonal trawling from Fleetwood. Robert S. Hewett, managing agent.
1940-1945: Fishing out of Fleetwood.
10.7.1943: Typical landing. 95 kits – cod-58, whiting-15, flats-7, coley-3, roker-5, gurnard-5, sole & prime-2.
10.11.1943: William Barnard died.
22.6.1944: Under terms of the Will, Mrs Ethel Annie Barnard, Lowestoft became the registered owner. Stephen Smith designated manager. 16.7.1952: Sold to Putford Enterprises Ltd, Paignton.
8.1.1953: Converted by L.B.S. Engineering Co Ltd, Lowestoft, fitted with 300bhp 4 stroke 3-cyl diesel by W. H. Podd Ltd, Lowestoft.
24.3.1953: Successfully completed trials.
17.3.1953: Registered at Lowestoft as STRENUOUS (LT112). John R. Hashim, Walberswick designated manager.
1955: Seasonal trawling from Fleetwood.
5.8.1957: In North Sea 25 miles NEbyE of Smith’s Knoll Light Vessel at 2230 took onboard four crew members of Belgian motor trawler MARCEL (Z330) (83grt/1947) (Sk. A. Ackaert) abandoned leaking when homeward from North Sea grounds; vessel foundered very slowly. After half an hour, survivors transferred to Belgian motor trawler PATRICK (Z149) also homeward for Zeebrugge.
7.1961: Fishing out of Milford. W. H. Kerr (Ship Chandlers) Ltd, Milford Haven, managing agents (William H. Kerr, manager).
23.1.1962: Last landing at Milford. Laid up.
1963: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up at Castle Pill, Milford Haven.
2.12.1964: Lowestoft registry closed.

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S.D/T. Homocea LT112

S.D/T. Homocea LT112
Picture courtesy of The Barry Banham Maritime Photo Collection

S.D/T. Homocea LT112
Picture courtesy of The Robert Durrant Collection

S.D/T. Strenuous LT112

M.D/T. Strenuous LT112
Picture courtesy of The Barry Banham Maritime Photo Collection

Changelog

30/11/2010: Page published. 4 updates since then.
26/110/2018: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
29/05/2019: Added an image.
12/01/2021: Updated history.